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It is often said, “Youth are our future leaders.” While this is true, we believe that youth are leaders today. If you are looking for interactive workshops the Youth Summit is the place to be. If your desire is to be trained in community problem solving the National Youth Leadership Initiative is right for you. This year CADCA has developed two experiences to equip our youth to be the leaders of today. Choose between the Youth Summit and the National Youth Leadership Initiative… Both successfully train youth to be catalysts for change.
Youth SummitWhat you will find at the Youth Summit are youth from all across the nation working to keep their communities safe, healthy and drug-free! Youth participants will have the opportunity to increase their skills and knowledge by listening to plenary speakers and attending interactive workshops. The Youth Summit will be held in conjunction with the Forum at the Washington D.C. Convention Center. click here for the Youth Summit Registration Form. National Youth Leadership Initiative CADCA's National Youth Leadership Initiative (NYLI) is a component of the National Coalition Academy developed by the Community-Anti Drug Coalition Institute at CADCA. The NYLI helps coalitions build their capacity to foster youth leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of action strategies addressing community problems. Participants are selected through an application process. In these sessions, both youth and their advisors learn how to help community coalitions be more effective in producing community change. This training builds the relationship between the youth leader and the adult coalition coach. They will learn about the strategic prevention framework, logic models, interventions, evaluation, and sustainability. This highly interactive training teaches what is required to create and nurture the growth of committed leaders and their work within coalitions. It will better equip youth and adults to develop a strategic action plan that clearly defines the strategies that young people will carry out to address the problems and goals that the coalition is striving to effect. Participants are selected through an application process. Click here for an application. Click here for information about registration. The Bulletin Board:
YOUTH SUMMIT SCHEDULE
NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE SCHEDULE
How Can I Communicate My Message? Presenters- Chris Volkmann and Toren Volkmann How Can I Communicate My Message? What can a teen tell others that will make a difference in drug and alcohol decisions? Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of youth whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain of alcoholism. Here are tools to help teens work with other youth making decisions about alcohol use. The authors of From Binge to Blackout , a mom and her 27-year-old recovering son, will use a PowerPoint tag-team presentation to discuss the choices offered our youth; the marketing of alcohol; parents' benign acceptance of heavy youth drinking and how to talk to them about not serving underage drinkers; kids' genetic maps for alcohol dependence; the vulnerable adolescent brain; as well as how to navigate around the nonchalance of government, family and teens towards public drunkenness and our alcohol-saturated culture. Teens in Action can make a Difference!
Presenter: Shawn Martinez, Southern Oregon Drug Awareness This interactive, entertaining, hands-on workshop is designed to help youth learn current alcohol, tobacco and other drug information and creative methods for sharing that information with peers and younger students. Participants should come to the workshop prepared to actively participate, learn and have FUN! The first half of the course will offer cutting-edge alcohol, tobacco and other drug information delivered in a creative and interesting way. The second half will involve participants learning interactive games, used to reinforce and share this information, benefiting their leadership skills. Learning Objectives:
Presenter: Youth to Youth International Teens, Javier Sanchez, Youth to Youth International This interactive, youth led, multi-media presentation is designed to help the teens involved with coalitions get prepared to take everything they have experienced at the CADCA conference back into their communities. This is done through a fast-paced and fun presentation led by teen representatives of the Youth to Youth International program. They will be given practical tools and ideas for taking participation in their coalition to the next level. Learning Objectives: • Understand why it is important for them to actively participate in coalition work. • Identify practical and relevant projects they can get involved with in their coalition. • Understand four key strategies for getting your message to your target audience.
Presenter: Marlene J. Berg, Youth Action Research Institute (YARI), Institute for Community Research (ICR)
Youth and adult research-activists will provide an hour-long workshop based on our award winning Youth Participatory Action Research for Prevention approach. Youth PAR engages those who are most affected by an issue in defining it; conducting research using a series of engaging and cutting edge research methods; analyzing the results; and using the data to bring about change. Through engagement in the action research process, youth begin looking at their communities critically, becoming engaged in ways that enable them to make positive changes in their communities and build support networks of young people and adults. In this workshop, a youth-adult research-activist team will facilitate interactive activities to engage the audience as they learn to: 1) think about issues from an eco-critical perspective, 2) build a research model based on youths' theory of change, and 3) use research findings for advocacy and to create change. Learning Objectives:
Presenter: Jessica Andrews, GUIDE, Inc. and the Georgia Teen Institutes At a young age most people learn how to recognize differences more quickly than similarities, and how to dislike others who are not like us. This session will include activities and discussions exploring cultural diversity and prejudices in a safe environment in order to learn how to create safe spaces within your coalitions. As leaders, it is critical that we be culturally aware and develop critical thinking skills, openness to exploring differing ideas and a willingness to learn and practice new skills. Bring an open mind, as we will discuss critical diversity issues such as racism, heterosexism and sexism. Learning Objectives: -explore personal prejudices in a safe environment. -learn activities to use in a variety of settings and with coalitions to teach a variety of diversity lesson. -identify ways to become more open minded or explore diversity in a way that is comfortable to them.
Presenter: Marc Fomby, Fomby Training & Consulting Let me introduce you to the world of Hip Hop and explore the lyrical content of music played over the radio today. We explore current trends by examining the messages that are openly displayed and sometimes hidden in rap. This training is Ideal for creative intervention strategies to facilitate groups, trainings, interventions, etc. by actively involving youth in the process of deciphering and dissecting the “ Message in the Music ”.
What is Hip Hop? Do you understand the music? Would you like to know what they're saying? There's a message in most of the music and we uncover it in this training.
Target Audience: Individuals who work with young people and are interested in utilizing the culture of Hip Hop Music to reach the youth. **Those interested in understanding what's being said in the music that's influencing the youth all across America .
Come with an eagerness to learn more about Hip Hop (Rap) and how it's influencing society today. Be prepared for discovery through exploration as this workshop incorporates music from the 1970's through today and its lyrical content. You may want to dance, sing, or listen. You may be disgusted and/or surprised… we may discuss your favorite song. All will definitely be enlightened. We will try not to play the music too loud. Learning Objectives:
Presenter: Deacon Dzierzawski, Consultant, CADCA
So what do coalitions really do? A behind the scenes view of coalition building and we're taking them back to the basics. Everything a youth leader didn't know about coalitions they'll know by the end of this workshop. Everything from Assessment to logic models, and “but why's.” This workshop is an overview of CADCA's National Youth Leadership Initiative. Youth will be able to experience a brief version of what CADCA provides for youth training. Get ready to go behind the scenes. Learning Objectives: 1. Be able to recognize the strategic prevention framework, 2. Be able to identify community needs and resources 3. Be able to analyze problems and goals
Presenter: Derek Peterson, Integrative Youth Development (IYD) This highly experiential workshop presents the new science of Integrative Youth Development (IYD) in a fun and exciting. The science of IYD is founded in the multi-disciplinary study of young people within the context of their multiple, and complex, environments. IYD brings research, data, and insights forward, from the fields of biology, genetics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, economics, physics, and anthropology. IYD presents a framework for the development for individual youth, within the context of their environment. This framework demonstrates the role of his/her individual traits, talents and propensities within the conditions provided by family, school, community, and culture.
Integrative Youth Development takes the best of the youth development research to focus our efforts on each young person. We have identified seven metrics that can be used to assess, nurture and sustain young people – while fully engaging them in their own support, and the support of others. Learning Objectives: • Be able to see the connections within the field of Youth Development. • Know the four prevalent frameworks for resiliency 1) Social Development Strategy (Communities that Care), 2) Developmental Assets (Search Institute), 3) Positive Youth Development (Forum for Youth Investment), 4) Cooperative Extention/4-H. • Learn a metaphor for uniting the competing frameworks. • Know the seven metrics used to evaluate progress in IYD.
Scholarship opportunities for youth attending the National Youth Leadership Initiative... click here to download an application. Apply by December 28!!
If you have any questions please contact Ariléa deCarvalho.
CADCA's National Coalition Institute C/O Arilea deCarvalho 625
Slaters Lane ·
Suite 300 Phone 1-800-54- CADCA , ext. 225 Fax 703-706-0565 E-mail: adecarvalho@cadca.org
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2007
YOUTH IN ACTION! 
Both
of these Youth Pieces will be held on February 12-15, 2007 at the Washington
, DC convention center. We encourage all youth to secure their hotel rooms
at the Washington Renaissance Hotel and to arrive Sunday evening February
11, 2007. Click here for conference 
Need
Sponsorship? CADCA has developed a sponsorship kit
loaded with places to go for sponsorhip within your community, example
letters, cost charts, and follow up calls. Download the 
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are needed for the ”Youth Make a difference” project. If your coalition
has pictures depicting youth making a difference in their communities
please email them to 
What
have you done with your coalition to make a difference in your community?
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Preventing Youth Decay 
The Y Project 
PAR for social justice: Inquiry, Advocacy, and Action 
Exploring Prejudice 
Message in the Music Hip Hop & the Media 
Behind the Scenes: Coalition Building 
The Seven Metrics of Integrative Youth Development (IYD) – The Wisdom
of the Elders...